What does the AFC Postseason Picture Look like After Week 6?

Wex and AC look around the future of the AFC and prepare for the Texans' run toward the postseason after a bye week. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lam It is the eighteen Sports Talk seven ninety webs
and AC with you on a Tuesday edition.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So before we.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Get into things here, you didn't it wasn't as public,
but you absolutely like you were like no Stra Thomas
only whatever you'd have to do to make it your
last name.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
What would that? I don't even know how you would?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, for you, wouldn't it be more like the great Karnak? Well,
that's what I would go. I mean, Matt Thomas and
I are both huge Carson fans, especially me. I mean,
he named a kid after a quarterback because his wife
made him. I named my kid after the greatest late
night talk show hosts.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
His name is Carly. That's not oh sorry anyway.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I mean we were having an off off Mike conversation yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, we were leaving the house and we're head to
the house. This is our house during the day, our
respective homes in the evening, and we have the great
pleasure of working in an office building that offers something
that not everyone's office building does. We're up on the
seventh floor and it really doesn't matter what floor are
you on some of the time, certainly when you get
in the elevator on our floor, specifically where the cafe

(01:19):
is also located. When you hit the elevator bank, there's
a big old TV screen there, and yesterday the first
of the two Monday night games was just about set
to begin. And when you head into the elevators, that
don't have any buttons in it, because you do all
that before you even get in. Because it's all super
high tech. There's another television in there, so you don't
even miss anything. Oh, I want to see this next

(01:41):
play now, just hop in the elevator. It's right there
on for you.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
We don't, by the way, real quick, we don't have
the traditional office setting in that there are no buttons
on the elevators once you get in them, and there's
no traditional company directory where we can see whether or
not we work with Bill Clay.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, we don't work with WM Period Clay not. But
we were watching the Oh yeah, get home and get
to watch most of, if not all, of the Bills Falcons.
And on my way into the elevator and off of
the floor that we work on, I said, Jon Robinson's
gonna run all over the bills tonight. Just wait and
they're gonna beat the bills. Bills are going to be
four and two.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
And I laughed at you scoffingly like you did to me,
and Cole especially did to me when I said the
Giants would beat the Eagles and camp Scattaby would have
the game of his life.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Or maybe I'm getting that mixed up when I said
that Archie would have to give the Eagles and the
Bills yep, have lost two consecutive games, and they're just
sitting at four and two. They were obviously both four
and zero. Bills do have some issues considering not only
did they allow the offense of the Falcons to do
pretty much whatever they wanted, because if not for Bjon
Robinson going off the way he did, putting the spectacular

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plays in front of everybody's highlight plate when you go
for an eighty one yard touchdown run and break a
tackle to do so right at the sideline, Drake London
had an unbelievable game. Drake had a which game. Also
said what was gonna happen? He Michael Pennix does have
a propensity a lean to a certain receiver. He attempted

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thirty two passes last night, exactly half of them went
to Drake London. He caught ten of them, and most
of them came in the first half. I actually brought
that play up at the end of the last segment
to note it. To me, it's almost like an epidemic
in football, and I feel like I'm the only one
who cares, notices or is in the wrong. Drake London
has to score a touchdown on that play, and I'm

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not saying it for the obvious reasons. Yeah, the clock
ran out. Either he scores a touchdown or it's a
waste of a play. I mean, what happened on the
play has to result in a touchdown. If you're Drake London,
why are you saying, well, instead of just letting one
guy tackle me, why don't I bring another guy into
the play. And that guy's wearing all white and he
never moves, he's the sideline. Why do you let the

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sideline make the tackle? You cannot do that, and runners
do it all the time. I know there's an angle
and you you have the angle on him, and there's
there's an element of science basically to it. And he
was not the faster player, but he didn't turn up
field soon enough. Just run into the guy. The guy
can't tackle you He's not gonna jump on you and

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pull you down without you going forward. You're both running forward.
Your forward progress is going to take you into the
end zone guaranteed, and it absolutely did. But you stepped
out of bounds first because you ran towards the sideline.
Why are you running into the sideline that hard? It's
just it's a mistake that so many players make and
they don't have this exact situation all the time. But

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in other situations, you know you've got a huge, long
run and you know there's more game left to play,
and there's more time on the clock, and you let
one defender bump you out of bounds. Why make him
tackle you? He has to get you down on the
ground and that's a minimum two three, four, could be five,
ten more yards if they don't make the tackle. All
you're letting him do. And I know, hey, I'm saving

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myself a tackle. I'm saving myself a hit. Don't you
want me to to keep myself healthy? There's a balance.
But in this particular instance, not a hypothetical, not a
what if scenario, this literal play last night, that has
to be a touchdown if you're Drake London. Ultimately, it
did not matter. Even though the Bills came out in
the second half and immediately made it a one score game.

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That was the last of it for the Bills. They
scored once in the first half, they scored once in
the second half. They had less than three hundred yards
of offense. They were two for nine on third down,
and Josh Allen threw the ball to the other team twice,
once directly and once on a late end of game.
Finished the game. You have no chance to win batted ball, turnover.
This got out played pretty much every which way you'd

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want to look at it, offensively, defensively. Now, they did
block a kick, so I can't add skiff to it. Yeah,
all right?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Why is the future of the AFC so clear? And
why might we not like it? What's happened to the
Texans the last couple of years.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
They have been the fourth best team in the AFC,
and I don't even think there's any debate about it.
They've been among the final four back to back yere
They've won their way into that position, not during the
regular season, but in the playoffs. Obviously, there's no off
week for them, as they were not the top seeds
in order to get into the final four of the AFC,
they had to win a playoff game, and then they
had the exact same trio of teams there with them

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both the last two years, and they did not advance
with two of them. Obviously, the team that beat them did.
And Kansas City's been in the title game multiple years,
running and running and running. So what's different this year. Well,
both of those things are different, and that's why things
are much much clearer, and it's actually clear as mud.

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The Texans aren't the fourth best team in the AFC.
I don't know if they're going to play their way
into that, but they certainly aren't that now. Nothing about
what they've done this year suggests they are what they
were a year ago. Could be a good thing, because
maybe they'll be better by the end of the season.
But the clearest mud part is it's a simple question,
who's the best team in the AFC. If I asked

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you this at any point in the existence of cjs
out as a Texan to Beiko Ryan's as a Texan,
Will Anderson Junior as a Texan, you had only three options,
and you really only had one option to answer that question.
You could answer Buffalo you'd have been wrong. You could
answer Baltimore, you'd also be wrong, but those are legitimate answers.
The answer was Kansas City. I'm gonna ask you that

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right now. Who's the best team in the AFC Colts
you do not know? There is no answer, There is
no clear answer. There aren't even just three teams to answer.
There's like eight teams to answer. Yes and no. That's
what the AFC might be. Yeah, if you look a big,
big picture, I might be taking this a bit far.

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But are we watching the excellence of the Baltimore Ravens
heading into the second part of ten years of excellence?
Not who they used to be capable of being among
the top teams? And could it be that Buffalo's window
actually closed again? Kansas City is a three and three
football team. Here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Right now, there are two five win teams in the NFL,
one in each conference, and no one is confusing Tampa
Bay and Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah. I don't know how many people are in our
building right now, in our particular office, but let's just
say there's twenty. They're including the people to our right.
There's definitely twenty because they have like twelve people down
there the rest of the office. Maybe there's a total
of twelve people. So that's twenty four people.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Including one very big Mariners fan who's such a nice guy, but.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
It kills Heeams ahead of Houston in the AFC. If
who asked the twenty four people who the best team
in the AFC is, I think we'd get a bunch
of different answers. And if we specifically said, hey, there's
only one five and one team in the AFC, it's
the Colts. Are you picking them to win the AFC
this year? We go, oh for twenty four? Yeah, And
I that's what I was wanting to get to.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I don't think they're for real, as in, look at
who we just talked about this yesterday.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Who have they beaten? Nobody? And who have they lost
to a playoff team? See? To me, it's more, do
you expect the Colts to go to the playoffs and
win three times? Well, somebody's gonna be the one scene
it could be there, or just.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Take it a step back and take it at the
simplest basic terms. Do you expect Daniel Jones to repeat
what he's already done, either over the course of this
season or next year?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah. I think there's all good questions, which is why
that's the whole point of it. They're all question marks
every single part of the AFC. So you might not
like where the Texans are. I don't either. I don't
think they do. I don't think anybody should. Two and
three stinks. You're not even average. You're playing your best
football currently, so maybe that bodes well for where you're
headed in the future. But the schedule is not easy.

(09:34):
I'm not sure if people were under the impression that
it was. But based on who they play and what
is left, we'll get more into that after we hit
Best of X, But specific to where the Texans are
and the future of the AFC, it is a dramatic
shift from what the Texans have seen the last two years.
There was zero doubt who you had to beat to
win the AFC, who you had to get past in

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the playoffs, Who were the three best teams with the
three best quarterbacks all up in the air. As we
sit here with the Texans having twelve games to go,
most of the rest of the AFC with eleven games
to go, we're in Week seven and you don't know
much about the AFC except almost anybody that's worth anything
in the AFC believes they can win it. That includes

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the Houston Texans Best of X something from last night's
game with me Jean Robinson as it relates to AC's
love affair with somebody else. That's best of X that's
coming up the AC on Sports Talk seven ninety